Word: loftiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With his shirt unbuttoned theater most of the performance, he struts his manliness and often gets into a battle of the bulge with Rittenhouse (Hans Canosa). Canosa is also the director of the production, and casting himself in this role is a suspicious move, since Rittenhouse is the loftiest of characters in terms of intellect and smugness. Canosa appears comfortable, almost too comfortable, punctuating sentences with a cigar that is never lit but just licked at the end for effect. His character is enigmatic but haughty and egocentric...
...want to be a member of a national championship team--that's by far my loftiest goal, and it's something I think we can achieve," he says...
From the lowliest hospital employee to the loftiest hospital trustee, everyone is aware of what Kay calls "a whole new era" for the health care industry...
...prospecting in those hills, we might usefully recall that fool's gold is much more common and that gold has to be panned for, dug out from other substances. "All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence," wrote Herman Melville, one of the loftiest and most eloquent of souls. Working himself up to an ever more thunderous cry of affirmation, he went on, "Silence is the general consecration of the universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff's hands upon the world. Silence is the only Voice...
...should have acted long ago to lessen its dependence on foreign oil. Of course, it should do everything it can in that direction now. So what? For the immediate future, a reliable supply of oil at affordable prices is vital to any modern economy. It just is, and the loftiest moral and ecological disapproval cannot change that brute fact...